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and acquire a deep green colour : and, on the north- 

 eastern Scotch coast, where timher suflPers most, the 

 breeze has Httle of that depressive influence on man, 

 although it may derange his respiratory and trans- 

 piratory organs ; while down on the shores of Suf- 

 folk and Essex, where the malaria of the breeze is 

 greatest to man, the exposed trees receive less in- 

 jury. Yet something may depend upon the elec- 

 tric state of this air, or upon the greater pressure of 

 the atmosphere, which, we believe, are connected. On 

 the exposed east coast, when it is desired to grow 

 timber, we must estimate the most enduring kind of 

 tree, perhaps sycamore plane, and place it to sea- 

 ward, covering it as much as possible by wall, and 

 planting other kinds under its lee. We have no- 

 ticed several instances where timber throve well, 

 without shelter, close by the sea, on our north-east 

 coast, which we attributed to a diminished draught 

 of the eastern breeze, owing to the configuration of 

 the adjacent higher country. 



Mr Monteath ascribes the sickliness and decay 

 which, in many places, is perceptible in the timber 

 of narrow belts, to the want of shelter, and recom- 

 mends to form belts wider. There is some truth in 

 this, and the advice is good, although he does not 

 seem to be aware of the whole cause of the evil.. 



